34. Rock Bottom Part I ~Cinnamon~

A few days earlier...

(theme begins)

Yoshiko has dinner by a Narra-wood table on a Narra-wood chair. She had a porcelain plate, a mug, and golden silverware. She ate a simple chop suey: Vegetables cooked with butter and filleted fish. She had a splendid time. She had a glass of warm chocolate baterole she made herself. She ate peacefully alone, humming the current music of her generation called, "Meatie Twinkies". She also had a small glass of wine she had since it's wine day for this week. The night is calm in her home as crickets could be heard outside in her garden. On the wall, she has images of only herself. Oddly enough, she has another meal set across her.

"Are you enjoying the dinner, sweetie?" she asked, as it is revealed that across the table is a dismembered human hand. Its flesh is still bleeding, meaning, it was freshly cut. It began to stench the whole house because it's beginning to rot. Its smell was disastrous. "Of course I make good food! I'm your girlfriend!" she blushed with excitement. "What's that?" she spoke to the dismembered hand. "You want your body back?" Yoshiko sneered as her eyes became cat-like. "Silence," she continued. "You have no right to talk to your girlfriend like that," she said. "I'm the one who brought you into this world. Dessert already? Ara, ara... Someone's quite spoiled, aren't they?"

Yoshiko gives the bleeding hand a desert of pandesal with Ube Filling.

Yoshiko grabs the human hand as she makes it "eat" the dessert. She makes a small mess as she used her fingers to poke the bread.

*splorge*

*splurge, splurge*

*splat*

Yoshiko licked her lips and fidgets.

"You filthy girl," she chuckled, as she licked the entire dismembered human hand, including its bone and blood. She licked and mouthed the rotten fingers as fangs began to develop in her mouth. She then bites the hand and starts mauling it like an animal. She moaned and growled gruesomely and hissed and purred like the animal she is. She cackles terrifyingly and moans louder. She finally woges into a terrifying white cat humanoid. This is a Nekomata. She growls and purrs like the monster she is. Her ears twitch and her tail wags out of excitement. She then looked down, as she grabbed the hand and reached for her-...

She finally meows, as she covers her mouth out of embarrassment, dropping the hand on the ground.

"Excuse me," she said in a deep and loud voice. She purrs some more.

"Ms. Kira?"

Yoshiko turned red, returns to her human form, and turns to her guard.

"WHAT?!!!" she asked violently as Killer Queen appeared out of her.

"Oh, my God! I'm sorry! I didn't know you were gonna-... uh..."

"I was what?" asked Yoshiko, standing up slowly. "You haven't seen a woman have sex with a dismembered hand before?"

"That was sex?" asked the soldier. "I mean-! Ms. Kira," said the soldier, backing away. "We didn't mean to intrude-!"

"You didn't mean to intrude?" said Yoshiko. "Don't bring your fellow soldiers into this. Get out, soldier... if you know what's good for you." she whispered under her breath as Killer Queen appeared and reached for the soldier.

"But, Ms. Kira... This is an emergency," he said, trembling.

Yoshiko then burst into laughter and giggled psychotically. "Okay! Okay! Tell me!"

"The Reaper... or Miguel JoJo... he knows where you live," said the soldier. "You have to move somewhere else."

Yoshiko stared at him and began laughing hysterically. She woged and used Killer Queen to punch a hole in his chest as she tore out his heart and entrails, killing him instantly.

*thud*

"Very well," she said. "I'll have to leave town for now... I'll be back with a plan and an army."

She looks up at the CCTV Camera.

"I now know that you've been watching me with your CCTV you sick perverts," she said. "Anyway, all of you take my stuff to the private jet. I'll be speaking with my Daddy."

(theme ends)

Before...

"Does anyone want to be Miguel's partner?" asked the teacher.

"No!"

"Ew!"

"He smells weird and he's fat!"

"I don't wanna! He looks funny!"

"He's a creep!"

Miguel bowed his head and stared at the ground feeling absolutely terrible. He drank his juice box. He hated himself for being a disgusting creep. He felt disgusted about himself. He thought that he deserved to be alone. He thought that he deserved to be away from others.

"Hey!" smiled someone. "I'll be your friend!"

Miguel looked up and met an odd-looking boy. His name... was Stephen Rivers...

Miguel's eyes widen.

Now...

Miguel and Anne both binge Insidious 9 1/2 as they sat on the two chairs across the television.

Anne drinks from a metallic bottle and puts it on the table.

"Ooh," said Anne, grabbing Miguel's left hand. "You have really big hands. In fact... Grab my fist."

Miguel's hand covers her entire fist.

"Whoa!" she exclaimed. "I don't get it! Why do guys have larger fists?" she asked, puckering her lips.

Miguel chuckled softly.

"Evolution?" asked Anne.

"You men don't understand how hard it is to be girls! We're all short and tiny with flat chests!"

"That's not true," laughed Jessica.

"YOU WANNA GO AGAIN, JESSICA?!!!" asked Anne, standing up and revealing Sticky Fingers.

Suddenly, she stands up, as she hits the metallic bottle which falls on her foot.

"Aray!" she shouted, grabbing her foot.

"You okay?" asked Miguel.

"I-It's fine," she said.

Jessica chuckled. "Anyway... Jedan Ligera..." she taunted. "You wanna go for round two?"

Jedan is shown to be playing a deck of 150 cards with Jessica.

"Remember the rules," sighed Jedan. "Grimm beats Cryptid, Human beats Grimm, and Cryptid beats Human. There are types. Stand-User Types automatically beat Normal-Types. Spirit-Types beat Stand-User Types. Normal-Types beat Spirit-Types. Demon-Types beat all other Types. All Types except Demon-Types can beat Angel-Types. There are 12 Users from each type and class."

Jedan and Jessica both took out five cards each. Both of them called a card at the same time.

Jedan called a card.

It's a Grimm Stand-User named, "Pong," with a Stand named, "Titanic."

Jessica called a card.

It's a Human Angel-Type named, "Mario," with a Guardian Angel named, "Michael."

"HA!!!" shouted Jessica. "I got a Human! Human beats Grimm!"

"But you're an Angel-Type. That disqualifies your Human Class," replied Jedan in a mundane manner.

"Tch-!" whispered Jessica. "This game is dumb! I don't wanna play anymore!"

Stephen ends up visiting their home.

"Hey, guys!" smiled Stephen.

"YO!!!" laughed Jedan. "Waddup, loser!"

"Jedan!" shouted Jessica. "Don't be so rude! Call him by his nickname!YO, ROCK BOTTOM!!!"

"C'mon, guys! That nickname doesn't mean anything!" sobbed Stephen.

"It means you're the bedrock of society!" laughed Jedan. Jessica laughed along with him.

"Stop laughing at me!" shouted Stephen.

"C'mon guys," said Anne, softly.

"ORA!!!" shouted Miguel, as both of them were bonked in the head.

"Ow, ow, ow!" whispered Jessica.

"Oomph..." said Jedan, holding his scalp in pain.

"Stop laughing at Stephen, you trash!" shouted Miguel.

"You used to laugh at him in High School!" shouted Jessica.

"Hay Naku..." said Miguel. "That was thirteen years ago... Honestly..." he sighed. "He's our friend, guys..."

"Thanks, Miguel," Stephen softly smiled.

"So..." said Miguel, as he took a bite out of an apple. "Why're you here?"

*crunch crunch crunch crunch*

"We heard that you were nearly captured by the serial killer, Yoshiko Kira," said Stephen.

"Yes," calmly said Miguel. "I thought she was a man for a while. Turns out a woman killed my mother."

"Yes," said Stephen. "Well... that's the thing, dude. She left town, recently. We lost track of her."

"Of course you did," said Miguel.

"I'm not a Stand-User... neither am I from the supernatural," said Stephen. "But I do know about how Stands are connected through strings of Hamon that connect them. So, that's how you'd search her?"

"I don't think so," replied Miguel. Miguel finishes the apple. He throws it up like a basketball into the trashcan.

"I thought you hated Basketball," said Jessica.

"I thought you hated being a loser," said Miguel, turning to Jessica.

"Well... How are you going to find her, then?" asked Stephen.

"Well... Guess I'll wait for her return," said Miguel.

"What's she planning?" asked Stephen

"Who knows," said Miguel. "Whatever it is, we'll just wait for her next move."

"But Miguel..." said Stephen, scratching his butt. "I need to report at least something."

"But... actually... I've developed a new object," said Miguel.

Miguel goes down to the underground bunker. He rummages through some of his stuff. He takes out the atomic microscope, a repulsor cannon, a repulsor shield, a Batarang, a bladed boomerang, a stick, and finally, his new invention. It's a circular ring-like object with a text pad in the center.

"What's that?" asked Jedan.

"Jessica, please stand in front of me," said Miguel.

"No, pervert," she said, with woged cat-like eyes.

"Come here or I'll use my Stand to break your spine so you won't race again Speedster Scum," he replied.

"Ugh!" she said. "This is so uncool! Why am I always your test subject?"

"Yeah," said Anne in a monotonous tone with her eyes woging black. "Why is she always your test subject?"

"Because she's Speedster Scum," replied Miguel.

"Acceptable answer," she said, continuing to watch.

"The movie isn't even that scary," whispered Miguel to Jedan. "It's the woman I'm watching next to that is."

"Can't you take her?" whispered Jedan back.

"What the f-?! NO!!!" he whispered back. "She can tear someone up from the inside! I'm technically the only person who can't kill any of you! I'm the weakest person here by default! Well... next to Dad and Kariel. I could probably equal Jessica... I AM THIRD... and a HALF!!!"

"We can both hear you," said Jessica.

"You're scared of me?" asked Anne with teary eyes. "Good," her eyes became immediately terrifying as they became black as the soul within her.

"HA HA HA HA HA!!!" laughed Jessica. "YOUR WOMAN'S OUT OF CONTROL!!!"

"Sometimes I wonder if you even are a woman as well," said Miguel.

*click*

"Huh!?" asked Jessica.

Star Platinum had stopped time and put the collar around her neck.

"GET THIS THING OFF OF ME!!!" shouted Jessica.

"Nah," smiled Miguel, crossing his arms.

"Ugh! Ew! It's vibrating!" shouted Jessica.

"Yeah," said Miguel. "This puts a smile on my face."

"I'll carve a bigger one right now," she sneered. "SILVER CHARIOT!!!"

Nothing happened.

"SILVER CHARIOT!!!" she shouted once more.

Anne and Jedan stood up from their seats out of terror.

"M-Miggy?" asked Anne, trembling. "Wh-What did you do, exactly?"

"I did what I found to be the most logical solution to defeating Salvi and his army," said Miguel. "I call it the Stand-Destabilizer. Guess what it does."

"It..." stuttered Jedan. "It destabilizes your Stand?"

"Yeah," said Miguel.

"Miguel," said Stephen, standing up. "This is someone's Stand."

"So?" asked Miguel.

"This is insulting!" he shouted.

"Stephen," said Miguel. "How is this below murder? How is this below Jessica and Jedan hunting their own kind and choosing the side of the Grimms? You don't even have a Stand, Stephen. Why do you care?"

"It isn't," said Stephen. "It's just that... It feels wrong... you're depowering someone. It's an insult on the very foundation of the Grimm ways."

"They're using their Stands to hurt people," said Miguel. "This stops them from ever using their Stand to hurt anyone else.Again, you don't have a Stand... you shouldn't care."

"But isn't the Stand someone's soul?" asked Stephen. "Your Stand is you... It's your unconscious mind. And you're simply shutting it down."

"Stephen..." said Miguel.

"My whole life, I was being shut down by my peers... Even you turned on me, Miguel JoJo..." said Stephen, rambling on as Miguel approached him. "You're just keeping these Stand-Users from showing their true selves. You're a damned hypocrite."

"Stephen!" shouted Miguel, as he approached Stephen once more.

Stephen backed away.

"Huh?! I could sense some Stand Energy from Stephen..." thought Miguel to himself.

"Yeah..." said the other guy. "Should I use Star Platinum?"

"No..." replied Miguel. "Don't try it. Not now, at least. If Stephen has a Stand Ability he isn't telling us, we shouldn't do anything about it except observe him."

"STEPHEN!!!" said a voice through the radio. "GET OVER HERE AND BRING US OUR PIZZA!!!"

"S-Sure, Zed," said Stephen, putting the radio on his ear. "I'll be going now... Over."

Stephen waved goodbye in his car as he drove away. The four waved back.

"BYE STEPHEN!!!" shouted Jessica.

"You sensed it, too, huh?" whispered Anne to Miguel, waving goodbye to Stephen.

"Yes," replied Miguel, whispering. "You think he'd be a problem?"

Stephen drove around in the streets of the forest. He drinks his coffee and hums to the song on the radio: "Meaty Bois." Stephen begins to drive faster, stepping on the accelerator.

"Stephen! You're so ugly!"

"I can't like you back. I'm sorry. You just look wrong."

"Your sweat smells like rotten eggs."

"Shut up, 'other fat-ass!'"

"Shut up, Stephen!"

"Stephen, bring us a pizza!"

"Hay Naku... Wala kang kwenta... Stephen."

Stephen stepped on the break as the car slipped and flipped, crashing down the road.

Somehow, Stephen is completely fine in front of the road. He takes a deep breath.

"Cinnamon," he smiled, as he took his clothes off and walked into the forest.

"Cinnamon."

He then sang in a soft and creepy voice.

"Heavenly shades of night are falling;It's twilight time;Out of the mist, your voice is calling;'Tis twilight time;"

*dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun... Rock Bottom... dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun... Rock Bottom...*